Hei kaikki! Today I learned about Penedo, a place in Brazil founded by Finnish immigrants. Supposedly they get a lot of Finnish tourism and have Finnish style buildings. Has anyone been to this place before or heard of it? I included photos of it Source for the image is from this travel blog
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Wow! No, never heard of it, really interesting! I’ll read up on it now, thanks.
We talked about it in school just last week
This is in news media every few years when there’s calm days around the world.
What?…
I found Penedo, which is in fact in Brazil, because the name is in Spanish for some reason at the top.
But the bottom is portuguese.
And the back is Finnish…
BTW there was a book about the Finnish colonies in Finland, I read the other day, I don’t know it was from Argentina, book was in Spanish.
Funny how they didn’t integrate at all, won’t even speak Spanish… instead they went to start Colonies in places like Patagonia.
And the stories were funny and tragic at the same time, how they built Saunas first, and whatnot.
The story is interesting and not necessarily pretty. I’ve been there few times and is farely nice regional touristic destination.
A finnish friend of mine donated a cap signed by Mika Häkkinen to the finnish museum they have there.
My wife is finnish, this spring we are going to Brazil and we will pass by very close to Penedo, but for some reason she has no interest on visiting it.